Urban transport news from Europe
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Metro Report InternationalKeolisAmey retains Docklands Light Railway operating contract
UK: Transport for London has awarded incumbent KeolisAmey the next contract to operate the Docklands Light Railway automated light metro. The contract was awarded following a competitive tender and runs for eight years from April 1 2025, with an option for a two-year extension. The operator ...
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Metro Report InternationalMoskva tram link line opened
RUSSIA: On September 22 Moskva mayor Sergey Sobyanin inaugurated a 650 m section of tramway on the east side of the city centre along ul Sergiya Radonezhskogo between pl Ilyicha and pl Andronievskaya. The short connection has a single stop and links existing routes. The new ...
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Metro Report InternationalTfL appoints Elephant & Castle tunnelling contractor
UK: Transport for London has awarded Dragados UK a contract to design and build passenger tunnels to link a new Northern Line station box at London Underground’s Elephant & Castle station with the line’s existing platforms and overbridge. Work on the station box began in January ...
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Metro Report InternationalNovel software to assess Transport for London clearances
UK: Transport for London is the latest customer to use D/Gauge’s Rift software for in-house structure gauging and track design activities. TfL is a longstanding client of D/Gauge engineering and consultancy services, and is now also using the Cloud-based gauging platform which has been configured to ...
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Metro Report InternationalKyiv Metro completes waterpoofing works
UKRAINE: Kyiv Metro restarted passenger services on the six-station Lybidska – Teremky section of Line M2 on September 12, following the completion of a nine-month project to address water and sand ingress. The work cost 383m hryvnia, 62m hryvnia less than had been estimated. It included ...
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Metro Report InternationalSt Petersburg light rail vehicle unveiled
RUSSIA: The first vehicle for the future Kupchino – Shushary – Slavyanka fast light rail route in St Petersburg has been rolled out at PK TS’s Nevsky factory in the city. The line is being developed by the BaltNedvizhService joint venture of ABZ-1 and Gazprombank under ...
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Metro Report InternationalParcel delivery by tram and cargo bike on test in Strasbourg
FRANCE: The delivery of parcels to the city centre by tram and cargo bike being tested in Strasbourg. The project is being undertaken by La Poste, Alstom, local authority Eurométropole de Strasbourg and operator CTS. A member of postal staff accompanies around 100 parcels in the ...
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Metro Report InternationalRATP Dev awarded Caen public transport operating contract
FRANCE: The Caen la Mer local authority has awarded RATP Dev a contract to operate its Twisto-branded public transport services for six years from January 1 2025. Currently operated by Keolis under a series of contracts which began in 2002, the Twisto network serves 275 000 ...
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Metro Report InternationalContactless payment expansion on hold following TfL cybersecurity incident
UK: The expansion of pay-as-you-go contactless payment to 47 more c2c, London Northwestern Railway, Southeastern and South Western Railway stations has been put on hold because of the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Transport for London. TfL is working with the Department for Transport and the Rail ...
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Metro Report InternationalFour suppliers invited to bid to renew Croydon tram fleet
UK: Four companies have pre-qualified for a potential contract to replace the oldest trams on the London Trams network centred on Croydon. Transport for London announced on September 10 that it had issued invitations to tender to Alstom, CAF, Hitachi Rail and Stadler Valencia. Any order ...
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Metro Report InternationalStrasbourg tramway expansion gains momentum
FRANCE: Tracklaying has begun on Strasbourg’s Tram Ouest project, and planning is under way for a northern expansion of the network. A ceremony was held on August 26 to officially install the first rail for the 4 km double track Tram Ouest extension of Route F ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London says cybersecurity incident does not impact services
UK: ‘There remains no impact to our public transport services and no evidence that any customer data has been compromised’, Transport for London said on September 6 when it issued an update on an ongoing cybersecurity incident. ‘We continually monitor who is accessing our systems to ...
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Metro Report InternationalZagreb tram order signed
CROATA: A firm order for Končar KEV to supply a further 20 low-floor trams to Zagreb operator ZET was signed by Mayor Tomislav Tomaševićs on September 3. A €37·8m order for an initial 20 trams was signed in June 2023, financed by the EU-backed National Recovery ...
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Metro Report InternationalDriverless tram begins passenger-carrying test runs
RUSSIA: A tram converted for driverless operation has begun passenger-carrying test running on Route 10 in Moskva. Operator Moskva Metro and the Centre for Electric Transport & Driverless Technologies have fitted the PK TS 71-911EM Lvyonok singe-section tram with six cameras and four lidar and three ...
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Metro Report InternationalBudget squeeze curtails Liège tram plans
BELGIUM: Test running has started on the north-south tram route in Liège, which is now expected to open on January 31 2025, around three years later than envisaged.
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Metro Report InternationalHigher capacity tram arrives in Göteborg
SWEDEN: Alstom has delivered the first of 60 longer and higher capacity trams that it is building for Göteborg.
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Metro Report InternationalTampere tramway extension plans could be scaled back
FINLAND: Plans for the third phase of the Tampere tramway could be scaled back, after the national government’s 2024-25 budget allocated €55m rather than the expected €100m. The planned 9·3 km, 11-stop extension to Suuppa in Pirkkala would be reduced to 4·7 km and five stops ...
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Metro Report InternationalKøbenhavn tram test running begins
DENMARK: København’s Hovedstadens Letbane has carried out the first test run between the light rail line’s depot at Rødovre Nord and Glostrup, 6 km to the south. The daytime test on August 14 was the first time one of the fleet of 29 Avenio LRVs built ...
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Metro Report InternationalBattery-electric tampers ordered for rubber-tyred metro lines
FRANCE: Infrastructure maintenance contractor TSO has ordered two Plasser & Theurer MetroFlex E³ battery-electric tamping machines customised for use on the rubber-tyred metro lines in Paris. A special tamping concept is necessary to deal with the complex trackform; the rubber tyred wheelsets run on horizontal guideways ...
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Metro Report InternationalChildren with Down’s syndrome act as tram conductors
NETHERLANDS: Staff on Amsterdam tram Route 26 gave children with Down’s syndrome the chance to be conductors for a day, opening and closing the doors and announcing the stops.